Advice on building a gaming rig

Hi guys, I'm planning on building my first gaming rig, and I was wondering if I could have some pointers from the more tech savvy around here :)

I'm not completely retarded with computors, nor am I amazing, but I do have some knowledge of what's required.

I'm hoping to build a rig that's able to run the majority of todays games on high settings, but I don't really want to go on a spending spree on excessively powerful components.

I've been told by a friend that this computor, http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155472 would be good with begin with, although I plan to not use that version of Vista as my OS, my friend will be giving me an optimized version for gaming, and I do I trust his judgement, although further advice would be much appreciated.

I'm also planning on getting an ATI Sapphire HD 4670 512mb graphics card, is this a good choice for my price range? (the most I'm willing to spend on a card is about £100

The monitor I'd like to use, is a 26" Bush hdtv (which I will also hook up my 360 and PS3 to) as it has a PC input, the reason for this is because by just buying that, I will save about £200 on a monitor I'd have to buy as well.

If I missed anything, I'll update later, I'm a bit too tired to be posting this now, but ah well.

Thanks for any input.

Why not? It's twice as good as your HD 4670 and is within your budget range. Happy gaming!

Hi guys, I'm planning on building my first gaming rig, and I was wondering if I could have some pointers from the more tech savvy around here :)

I'm not completely retarded with computors, nor am I amazing, but I do have some knowledge of what's required.

I'm hoping to build a rig that's able to run the majority of todays games on high settings, but I don't really want to go on a spending spree on excessively powerful components.

I've been told by a friend that this computor, http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155472 would be good with begin with, although I plan to not use that version of Vista as my OS, my friend will be giving me an optimized version for gaming, and I do I trust his judgement, although further advice would be much appreciated.

I'm also planning on getting an ATI Sapphire HD 4670 512mb graphics card, is this a good choice for my price range? (the most I'm willing to spend on a card is about £100

The monitor I'd like to use, is a 26" Bush hdtv (which I will also hook up my 360 and PS3 to) as it has a PC input, the reason for this is because by just buying that, I will save about £200 on a monitor I'd have to buy as well.

If I missed anything, I'll update later, I'm a bit too tired to be posting this now, but ah well.

Thanks for any input.

sl4y4

Future proof? This is out of question.

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I'm hoping to build a rig that's able to run the majority of todays games on high settings, but I don't really want to go on a spending spree on excessively powerful components. nVidiaGaMer

Chances are he doesn't use any applications requiring quad cores, such as photoshop, video encoding, etc.

I'm not completely retarded with computors, nor am I amazing, but I do have some knowledge of what's required. sl4y4

Don't even think about GTA IV as evidence that games are starting to ultilize quad core. That game works so well on quad cores because Rockstar didn't bother optimizing it for the PC's duo cores. Besides:

The monitor I'd like to use, is a 26" Bush hdtv (which I will also hook up my 360 and PS3 to) as it has a PC input, the reason for this is because by just buying that, I will save about £200 on a monitor I'd have to buy as well. sl4y4

...Now that I got that out of the way, Duo Cores will still be mainstream until about DX11. They perform flawlessly on nearly all of today's games and rarely do they bottleneck. Your Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 is a fantastic CPU, and should last you for a very long time despite what every other quad-core fanboy will tell you.

Sapphire HD 4830 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card

Why not? It's twice as good as your HD 4670 and is within your budget range. Happy gaming!

kaitanuvax

Whats you total budget going to be?I'm also looking to put together a gaming PC soon for the 1st time.

I'm curious to see what it will cost to put together a mid range PC.A lso where will you be nuying most of your components from?

Whats you total budget going to be?I'm also looking to put together a gaming PC soon for the 1st time.

I'm curious to see what it will cost to put together a mid range PC.A lso where will you be nuying most of your components from?

gsx1100

Ok, well that desktop I was going to buy is out of stock :\

So unless it gets back in stock soon, I'll be buying all the components seperately.

*EDIT* I've been mooching around ebuyer (I'll either buy my stuff from there or from a store) and I've come up with some more components, can anyone tell me if this is any good?

Graphics Card - ATI Sapphire 4830 512mb GGDR3 Dual DVI HDTV out PCI-E

CPU - AM Athlon 64 X2 5400+ 2.8Ghz socket AM2 L2 1mb

HDD - Seagate ST3500320AS 500 Gb HD SATA II 7200rpm 32mb cache

Keyboard - Razor Lycosa UK gaming keyboard USB

I now need :

CPU cooling

Motherboard

Sound card

Power Supply

and Case

Any suggestions?

Oh and as for the RAM, I would prefer to get 4gb of it, but am unsure what brand to buy, could anyone help me out a little please?

*sorry for reposting the same message, my firefox went all screwy for some reason and wouldn't display it*